@timiteh
Actually, before selling their desktop/laptop business to Lenovo, IBM made sure their Thinkpad line was fully Linux compatible (when most other laptops had Windows only device drivers and were at best problematic under Linux).
And their Power PC based server systems (like the System P line) has been able to run any Linux distro that ships for PowerPC based systems, for at least the last ten years and is currently marketed as "for AIX and Linux".
Even their System Z mainframe line supports Linux and Linux is heavily marketed as an option for System Z: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/index.html
So IBM has been doing "massive and significant" things for open source. You just need to open your eyes a little.
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